The Covington Catholic Times Volume XXVI-Issue II

October 20131600 Dixie Highway, Park Hills, Kentucky 41011 (859) 491-2247

Page 2 Reviews Page 4 Editorials Page 5 Student Life Page 9 Sports

By: Brian Radcliff

Every year Covington Catholic holds a Halloween Mixer open only to freshman level stu-dents from Covington Catholic and Notre Dame Acadamy. This year the Bash was held on Fri-day, October 25th. Freshman paid five dollars for a night of fun!

The Halloween Bash is a great way for freshman students to be involved and meet other stu-dents because it is exclusive to only freshman. Whereas some freshman may shy away from other school events due to the overwhelming en-vironment and being the youngest in attendance, the Halloween Bash is the first opportunity for fresh-man to freely express themselves among peers of the same age. The Bash is held in the Covington Catholic gymnasium, and students are treated to a Disc Jockey, snacks

So Fun It’s ScaryBy: Adam Fischer

Covington Catholic kicked off their Homecoming with a bang and ended with a boom.

The day started with a home football game win against the Ryle Raiders, 26-17. During halftime of the game the Homecoming court was announced with their dates at mid-field showing the 2013 nomi-nees for Homecoming King and

Out of This World

Michael Turner and his date seem to be enjoying themselves at the homecoming dance.

to an end, it was finally time to reveal who the King and Queen were. The Homecoming Court was as follows: Tanner Harden and Re-becca Scheper, Adam Atkinson and Ali Bridwell, Grant Schreiver and Kristen McAphee, Nick Ruthsatz and Molly Mayer, Alex Riedinger and Maggie List, Nathan Wich-mann and Brooke Gentry, Noah Wilmink and Kylie VonHandorf, Mark Schult and Lauren Hollman,

Brett Bauereis and Lily Weber, Michael Turner and Fran Herbe, Brian Menke and Ellie Fathman, and David Wessels and Ashley Bowdy. All the candidates were announced and walked down the aisle with their dates while wait-ing to hear who was going to be King and Queen. Eventually, the winners were revealed by School President, C.J Moellering, with third place going to Tanner Hard-en and Rebecca Scheper, second place going to Alex Riedinger and Maggie List, and first place going to Brian Menke and Ellie Fathman.

The dance ended with a slow dance by the King and Queen, and then one last song was played to end the night with a boom.

and drinks. Each student is encour-aged to wear their best Halloween costume, and enter into the annual Costume Contest. There are three winners, who are awarded a gift card to various stores. This year’s over all winner was Emma Duer-stock from Notre Dame Acadamy.

One of the most antici-pated events of the night is the Drug Free Club prize give away. Students are rewarded for enter-ing into the Drug Free Club with an automatic entry into a raffle for a new iPod Shuffle at the Hallow-een Bash, along with a free cookie at lunch every once in a while.

Freshman Mathew Thiel claims the Freshman Halloween Bash was one of the “the most en-joyable events of his freshman year so far”. The Freshman class en-joyed this year’s Halloween Bash, as did many classes before them.

The freshmen battle it out with NDA in a cheer-off.

Homecoming King and Queen Brian Menke and his date Ellie Fathman have their dance.

Queen. As night came around, the Colonels dressed to the nines with their dates for pictures and din-ner, and then came to the gym for a wild and crazy night of dancing and fun with friends. The Colonels were challenged to a dance contest by some of their dates as the danc-ing got heated. The girls were no match for the Colonels, though, with the Colonels taking the win in all three songs shutting out their dates. The MVP of the contest for the Colonels was Neal Stansel and for the girls, Olivia Kuykendall. The night went on with lots of dancing and great memories in the making. Many students received prizes for agreeing to be breathali-zed before the dance and were rec-ognized by the counselor, Mr. Rick Flesch. As the dance was coming

Page 2ReviewsBy Evan Braun

Shoes will always be one of the main focus points of your out-fit, and unfortunately no one really considers that when putting on their dad’s Sketchers and heading out for the evening. I’m not saying you need to go out there and blow 200$ on a new pair of retro Jordan’s but there is nothing wrong with trying to educate yourself on how to dress nice. Look good-feel good, right?

In general, you should look for sneakers that are classic and

Shoes Make the Outfitsimple. There’s always a risk of looking juvenile in sneakers, but you can minimize it by wearing the right ones. I recommend avoiding sneakers with more than two colors and anything that was made to play a specific sport (unless that sport was tennis in the 1950’s.) Most im-portantly, pick a shoe that you like and that will fit your style. Since we are in high school, I guess we get a little more leeway when it comes to this stuff though.

Canvas sneakers are very simple footwear that’s more ap-

propriate for spring/summer than fall/winter. Vans, Chuck Taylors, Jack Purcells and Keds are easier to find, but less common brands like Common Project and Spring Court sneakers are worth hunting down. If canvas sneakers are too “Skater” for you then you can check into low-top athletic shoes or high-tops. Low-top athletic shoes can easily go wrong, but a simple and nice color way like the New Balance 574’s is a great example of a nice low-top athletic sneaker.

Avoid actual running shoes and Vibram five-finger toe-shoes – unless you are actually running! Wearing a pair of dad-washed jeans with your new sketchers isn’t ex-actly a great way to present your-self now days. Be wary of fashion sneakers that are flashy like the ones from Diesel. The quality is never worth the price of those shoes. Just stick to the basics and simplicity of the shoes and think before you put on those track shoes for your night out. Look good –feel good!

By Evan Braun

Created by Eli and Drew, partners in the restaurant, Eli’s BBQ was made for anyone wanting to sit down in an atmosphere of good mu-sic and company. Eli’s BBQ has the best food around town. I will have no doubts you will go back for seconds!

Eli’s Menu consists of any-thing you can think of that you would have at a BBQ. You can pick your main course and two extra sides for a simple price of 8.00$. I tried the pulled pork sand-wich with a side of macaroni and

mashed potatoes and it was deli-cious. The combinations are endless and the drinks come in varieties; Eli’s is definitely the place to be.

Eli’s not only has good food but the comforting feel to it makes it even better. The warmth inside the tents and music provides a sense of being home. Eli’s is a place to let go and relax and have a good time. I will definitely be going back here in the next week or so. I highly recom-mend Eli’s, the best BBQ around.

Eli’s BBQ

By Sam Dressman

Grandview Tavern and Grille is a local restaurant in Ft. Mitchell just off of Buttermilk Pike. With many different weekly spe-cials and live music, the tavern is typically a setting for middle age adults. The featured brunch specials attract a large number of seniors as well, on Sundays especially.

Another reason this classy place is a setting for adults is be-cause of the check you get after dining. The lunch and dinner menus have many varieties of delicious entrees, and for special occasions

Grandview Tavern and GrilleI would say it is worth the high price. My favorite dish is the Cala-mari, which is found in the appe-tizers for lunch and dinner at $13.

The environment is a mod-ern American and European tavern that has a dining area surrounding a large bar area. There are also two large party rooms around a cor-ner that are set off and away. It’s a great place for large parties to go to. Outside is the small stage area with patio seating all around. Up against the building is a unique and creative bar arrangement that ties the outdoor area together.

By: Samuel Hatter

Are you and your friends looking for a nice place to enjoy a delicious breakfast on a cool, fall morning? Or maybe you’re look-ing for a nice place to take your girlfriend. Waffle House is usu-ally pretty crowded, First-Watch can be expensive, and Bob Evans is full of old people. Try Otto’s restaurant in Covington. Located in Mainstrasse, Otto’s has been serving exquisite food since 2003.

Walking in, the scent of pan-cakes and fruit immediately pene-trates you’re nostrils. The restaurant itself is small and homey. It is very modern and trendy, with paintings on the walls. Musical artists such as Mumford and Sons and The Lum-ineers softly play over the speakers.

The staff is extremely classy and nice, providing excellent service. The menu is small, but the food is fantastic. I ordered the pancake spe-cial, which varies every day, mine being blueberry. Unlike a tradition-al pancake, Otto’s glazes theirs and it almost tastes like a donut or fun-nel cake. The bacon was cooked ex-tra crispy, and flooded your mouth with its delicious flavor. The check came and I ended up spending twenty-five dollars for two people, cheaper than any trip to First Watch.

Overall, Otto’s provides a nice, modern, homey environment. The service is excellent and the price is average for a nice restaurant. Most importantly, the food was unreal. I would give this restaurant a 9/10 and I will definitely be going back.

Otto’s Restaurant

By Tommy Lawler

A new restaurant has just been built along US 42 in Union and is raising some attention. This res-taurant, known as “Flipdaddy’s,” is known for their delicious burgers as well as their beer. They have many different types of burgers, rang-ing from “The Flipdaddy burger,” which is described as “The quint-essential, classic American burger served with lettuce, tomato, onion and a pickle. A little retro, but al-ways cool and always delicious,” to “The Chuck Norris Burger,” which is where the chefs “add a kick to our proprietary beef blend with secret spicy signature sauce, fire roasted green chile and jalapeño compote, lettuce and pepper jack cheese. Like a tasty, roundhouse kick to the mouth.” There are also many other tasty burgers offered at Fipdaddy’s.

The Flipdaddy’s franchise also has two other restaurants, one in Symmes Township on Mason Montgomery road and the other in Mariemont on Wooster Pike. The newest addition in the franchise is a little bit closer to our school; it is about twenty-five minutes away next to the Kroger’s in Union. It occupies the building where the old blockbuster used to be, but it makes much better use of the space.

According to Merik Ber-ling, a senior at Covington Catho-lic High School, “Flipdaddy’s has the best burgers around. I got the seasonal burger, and while I was a little intimidated at first, it turned out to be one of the best burg-ers that I have ever eaten!” Many other Colonels are enjoying the great burgers at Flipdaddy’s, so do not be scared to give it a try.

Flipdaddy’s Burgers

Page 3ReviewsBy: Samuel Hatter

The past few months have been big for modern day music. Several huge names in music from all genres have released new al-bums. In the pop world, Katy Perry released her newest album titled Prism, featuring her hit single Roar. Based on past success, this album will probably produce numerous hit singles and will receive a ton of ra-dio play. Lady Gaga has recently re-leased several singles such as “Ap-plause” and “Do What you Want” that have sparked in the pop world and that will also be huge in help-ing the sales of her newest album, “Artpop”, set to release November 9th. Next is Miley Cyrus, who has come in on a “Wrecking Ball” and really changed up the world of mu-sic. She is making her own hits such as “We Can’t Stop” and is also be-ing featured on tracks of rappers,

extremely uncommon for a pop star. Miley recently released her album “Bangerz” which has had major suc-cess thus far, and will probably be-come even bigger as soon as the ra-dio gets a hold of a few more songs.

In the rap genre, most of the big names released their albums over the summer. Jay-Z dropped his album “Magna Carta Holy Grail” on the fourth of July. This album featured the lead single, “Holy Grail”, featuring Justin Timberlake, and that has been the only song to receive any radio play. Most die-hard Hov fans were disappointed with this album, but, based on just his name, it still had major success. Mac Miller, another big name in hip-hop, released his second stu-dio album titled “Watching Mov-ies with the Sound Off” which had major success. Mac fans praise this album and claim to be his best so

far. Many songs are slow and deep, but others are up-tempo and fun, providing for and overall great lis-tening experience. Kanye West, possibly the biggest name in hip-hop, released his newest production “Yeezus.” Kanye executively pro-duced this album and even helped make all of the beats with other producers such as Rick Rubin and Daft Punk. This album is unlike anything else you have ever heard; mixing dark, African forest sound-ing beats and noises with deep, meaningful rap lyrics. Kanye is cur-rently on a tour in the United States, titled “Yeezus”, and will be in Co-lumbus, Ohio on November 8th for anyone interested in going. Finally, Drake, the most over-hyped artist of all time released his third studio album, “Nothing was the Same”, which has had massive success. Drake is the hottest artist out right now and for some reason every-

one loves him. “Nothing Was the Same” contains songs such as “Wu Tang Forever”, “Pound Cake”, and “All Me” which have all received a ton of radio play. Other than those few songs, the album is extremely soft and boring, in my opinion, and didn’t live up to the high ex-pectations many people had for it.

There have been many great albums released in the past few months from all genres of music. I encourage you to be open to try and listen to a new genre or new album you may have heard about. I have personally found several new bands and artists that I lis-ten to on a regular basis, that, six months ago, I would have never dreamed about listening to. Music is a beautiful thing and it can pick you up in tough times or hype you up even more in the good ones.

By: Nick Kathman

Fear will hold you prison-er; hope will set you free. This is the message portrayed in the movie Shawshank Redemption.

Shawshank Redemption was filmed in 1994 and directed by Frank Darabont. Tim Robbin-sdid a fantastic job playing as Andy Dufresne and Morgan Free-man did just as good playing as Red. Though the movie did not do too great in the box office, it was nominated for multiple awards and got many favorable reviews from critics for its realism and acting.

This movie is based on actual

events in the late 1940’s and is about a man named Andy Du-fresne who is convicted and charged with the mur-der of his wife, when he actually was not the one who killed her. Throughout his time in prison he fac-es many dif-ficulties, but also meets long life friends. One in

Hope Will Set You Free

Modern Music

particular is Red. Red was convict-ed for mur-der when he was a young man. By the time Andy and Red meet, Red is an older man and has spent most of his life in prison. During the time Red and Andy spend together in prison, they talk about life

and their dreams of the future. Red

does not really have any hope for the future, he has been in prison most of his life so it’s all he knows. Andy is full of hope and talks of the things he wants to do once he gets out of prison. I cannot say much more about the storyline without giving away the exciting parts of the movie.

This movie is an all-time clas-sic and is a great watch for any-one looking for a great movie. The story line is original, exciting, and entertaining. Shawshank Redemp-tion is a must-see movie for any-one seeking a great classic film.

Page 4EditorialsBy: Austin Oberhausen

Aubrey Drake Graham, bet-ter known as rap superstar Drake, came out with his third studio album on September, 24, titled Nothing Was the Same. Most people have a hate/love attitude towards Drake’s music, but no matter how you feel about him you cannot deny his suc-cess. Both of his first two albums debuted at number 1 on the Bill-board 200. They included notable

singles like: “Over”, “Take Care,” “Headlines,” and “The Motto”.

Drake’s newest album was his most hyped album yet, and it lived up to its expectations. It sold 658,000 copies in its first week and also debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200. The album features hit singles such as: “Started from the Bottom,” “Hold On, We’re Go-ing Home,” and “All Me”. It in-cludes features from popular Rap

artists 2 Chainz, Big Sean, and Jay-Z; and also included pop stars Justin Timberlake and Miguel. The album talks about Drakes past rela-tionships and what he misses about them and what kind of pain they caused him. I really enjoyed this al-bum more than any of his previous albums. I was not a big drake fan before but this new album changed my mind dramatically. This album had much more substance and was much better lyrically than past al-

bums such as Take Care, which had a lot of really good beats and rhythms but lacked any solid lyrical value.

Drake has won many awards, including one Grammy for his al-bum Take Care, Six BET awards, and many MTV VMAs. Drake has the most number 1 singles on the Billboard Rap Charts with twelve.

Drake Has Another Hit Album

By: Austin Oberhausen

Antonio “Spirit” Spiritoso is a Junior at Covington Catholic that is a promising young rap art-ist. He has been rapping since sev-enth grade and has been looking for a way to jumpstart his career, and on October 5th, he had the op-portunity of a life time. Spirit got the chance to open for major Rap

star Yelawolf at Madison Theatre.

Spirit heard that Yelawolf was holding tryouts for a local act to open for him, So he submit-ted an application with samples of the his music. He was then called to a tryout and was selected for the gig out of a group of about 30 people. At the show Spirit says he was amped up as ever, “It was

The Amazing “Spirit”such a crazy environment and it was so cool to perform for people I know and people that have never heard me before” he said. Spirit was one of many opening acts that had the place rocking for Yela-wolf. Spirit spent a good amount of time with Yelawolf backstage and they became friends he even gave Spirit the jacket he wore on stage.

Spirit has many excit-ing things happening right now in his rap career, his album “WAR” is now available on Itunes. He also has a couple of big shows coming up in November, in-cluding shows at Bogart’s and even a show in New York City.

By: Thomas Hiltz

In this day and age, tech-nology has become an integrated part of our everyday lives. Bil-lions of Facebook status updates and posts occur every minute, and Americans spend about 3 hours and 7 minutes on average every day. People are actually developing ad-dictions to the internet. They physi-cally need it and can even exhibit withdrawal symptoms without it.

This is where the reSTART program comes in. The reSTART Internet Addiction Recovery Pro-gram is specifically oriented toward

reSTART Programbringing technologically-depen-dent children and adults back into the real world. The profession-ally designed and research-backed program is aimed at assisting par-ticipants with an Internet-based be-havioral addiction to break its daily dependency. The 45 day technolo-gy-free recovery program exposes participants to a variety of activities and everyday life skills which are often avoided or underdeveloped as a result of excessive computer, video game play and internet use.

One restart client , “J” , gave a testimonial after completing the program: “Just wanted to give

you a quick life update. Basically, it’s pretty dang awesome - I’ve been back at school, and at work. I’ve been making an effort to be more social, and it’s going pretty well. For the first time in a while I feel like my life is whole: I’ve got my schoolwork, and my job, and my friends, and just recently, a girlfriend. I’m a lot happier than I’ve been in quite some time. Just wanted to say thanks for all the life lessons. Everything is a lot better when you don’t waste all your time sitting in your room. And as much as I hate to admit it, Restart helped a lot in getting me to realize that.”

Addiction programs like reSTART will become very im-portant as technology continues to rapidly evolve and take over our daily lives. Internet addiction and social dissonance is a growing problem in contemporary society because unlike the basis for most addictions, the internet is avail-able to almost everyone. With this thought in mind, the idea of internet addiction numbers rivaling that of smoking is not crazy and may not be far off. Hopefully with grow-ing popularity and informative ad-vertising, programs like reSTART will be able to educate the modern generation on healthy internet use.

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Page 5Student LifeBy: Nick Cheesman

Spirit Week at Cov-ington Catholic is a week full of excitement, enthusi-asm, and even many costumes.

Spirit Week is a much an-ticipated week at Covington Catho-lic High School. Students love the events and activities that this week contains. Costumes can be worn each day by the youngsters depend-ing upon the grade level. For ex-ample, on Monday, freshmen were allowed to wear their regular school attire, but inside out and backwards. Despite having to wear their clothes inside-out and backwards, fresh-men enjoy that Monday. Some of the themes that students could dress up to were Favorite Teacher, Paja-mas, Dress like your Dad, and even Throwback Jerseys. Senior Colo-nel, Johnny Thiel, answered after being asked about costumes, “The dressing up into costumes really lightens up the stress of school.”

A Week Full of Spirit

By: Matt Quinn

October 23 is a very impor-tant day in the field of chemistry. Teachers and students have started a tradition of celebrating the con-tributions of chemists and people alike through the years. Mole Day is given thanks to Amedeo Avo-gadro, a chemist that spearheaded the number of 6.022x10to the 23. Every year Mrs. Hagedorn, the chemistry teacher, likes to cel-ebrate with her sophomores. Mole Day is a nice change of pace for the sophomores and gives them time to truly respect the field.

Mole Day

By: Sam Dressman

At school here, students have the option as seniors to take a class off campus for vocation school. This is an option for peo-ple who may be entering a trade school, apprenticeship after high school. They leave school after fifth period (lunch period) and will not have to return to school because the class they attend is part of school.

Two students are currently participating in this here. Steve Surace goes to Gateway Com-munity College to practice weld-ing. He says it is the starting point of a field he is interested in, and would like to have a head start.

Jon Horlein is another stu-dent that attends a class at Boone

Vocational School

Costumes were not the only activities that happened over this exciting week, more fun events were planned during the three lunch mods. These events included an ice cream eating contest, corn hole, and wheel barrow races. The highlight of the ice cream eating contest oc-curred in third mod with a huge upset win. Junior, Mike Summe, was the underdog going into a contest with powerhouse contes-tant, Tanner Harden. Tanner started out strong, but began to struggle late where Mike started his rush to victory. Mike stood up after his last triumphant bite of ice cream and flipped up his wrapper in de-light. He was definitely the hero of all the junior colonels that day.

After an exciting week filled with enjoyable activities, students overflowed with spirit, and cheer-ful teachers, spirit week closed with no-school on Friday. Hopefully next year will be just as fun-filled.

Chemistry students are enjoying Mole Day with Mrs. Hagedorn.

County Career and Tech Center. There he studies in a class for diesel fuel technology. He takes a lot of in-terest into cars, especially diesel pro-ductions of course, and also believes he will find a career in this field in-volving fuel technology with diesel.

The vocational school pro-gram at Cov Cath is not one that has many students because most kids decide to finish high school and en-ter the standard four year program for college. The students who usu-ally choose this program have put a lot of thought into their decisions for what they plan to do in the fu-ture. They take the classes that they know they will need to study in order to find a place in the career field they are already interested.

The sophomores are in charge of bringing in treats, snacks, and drinks to celebrate the his-tory of chemistry. The sophomores brought in brownies, cakes, chips, and drinks of different kinds to en-joy the day. Mrs. Hagedorn showed the sophomore clips and projects of past students that they did for their mole day. These projects in-clude movies, works of art, essays, and building projects. Mole Day is a tradition in the field of chem-istry, but also here at Cov Cath. We thank Mrs. Hagedorn for all she does to keep this fun tradition alive for the young chemists here.

Meyer and Couch’s

Space For Rent

On Thursday, October 24th, CCH Alumnus and Fox 19 Sports Anchor Joe Danneman took time out of his busy schedule to talk to the journalism class about his career.

Mr. Danneman began by talking about how he graduated from Covington Catholic and then studied Journalism at the Universi-ty of Syracuse. After graduation he took a job as news writer for Fox 19 and w o r k e d his way up through the ranks to eventually b e c o m e a sports a n c h o r /r e p o r t e r for them in 2004. In 2009, he was given the opportunity to become head sports director of WFIE-TV in Evansville, Indiana. In 2011, Joe returned to Cincinnati as head sports anchor/reporter for Fox 19, a position he still holds today.

Joe then went on to talk

No Average Joe

Joe Danneman, class of 1998, speaking to the journaliusm class.

about his hectic lifestyle in the news business, mentioning the stress and pressure put on him in his day to day work. “What makes my job worth-while,” Joe said, “is the people I get to meet and the stories I get to tell.” Joe went on to tell humorous and exciting stories of his career as re-porter including interviewing Chad Ochocinco, reporting at the Super

Bowl, and m e e t i n g Usher at the Ken-t u c k y D e r b y .

B y the end of the class period the J o u r n a l -ism class had greater

insights into the career of journal-ism and got to meet a local news personality. “His job just sounds so awesome,” Journalism student Mi-chael Brunot observed after class. Joe’s visit to CCH left many stu-dents like Michael considering a career in Journalism for the future.

Above: Brian Menke and AJ Skubak do their best impersonation of Mr. McCoy.

Page 6Student Life

By: Thomas Hiltz

The Covington Catholic English De-partment has always placed importance on the dramatic and theatrical aspects of English education. On Wednesday, Octo-ber 23, the freshmen experienced their first taste of this facet of the English curriculum.

The freshmen had the pleasure of view-ing a professional performance of Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men performed by the Shake-speare Company. Having read the novel, the students went into the play with great knowl-edge and in-depth analytical experience with the story and thus, had an even greater appre-ciation for the play itself. Seeing a piece of literature manifested on stage is a powerful way to solidify a story in one’s mind, and the English Department agrees that the fresh-men benefit from the experience greatly.

The Shakespeare Company did a fantas-tic job of staging actors that represented the char-acter from the novel well and the acting they did was impeccable: The actor who played Lenny was of a stature similar to what one would envision from reading the novel. The way the actors spoke and held themselves truly reflected that of men of the 1930’s dealing with the Great Depression. The freshman enjoyed the experience and look forward to the next opportunity to see a play.

Lennie and George Come to Life

Students Take on TerrorBy: Riley Kinsella

Bobby Mackey’s Music World is a night-club located in Wilder, Kentucky, 3 miles south of Cincinnati, Ohio. It is located bear the Licking River. Bobby Mackey’s Music World was once a slaughterhouse until the building was torn down and a bar was built on top of the property. Due to a number of violent events such as murder and rumored satanic rituals that have taken place on or around Bobby Mackey’s property, it is thought that ghosts, along with demonic beings haunt the area. The building is often referred to as “Hell’s Gate”. Bobby Mackey’s Music World has been featured on numer-ous television shows, claiming that the area is extremely haunted.

Covington Catholic High School stu-dents Riley Kinsella, Trystan Washburn, Matt Quinn, Jason Meyer, Brian Menke, Michael Brunot, Bradley Couch, and Garrett Atchison, along with Mrs. Ruth investigated Bobby Mack-ey’s Music World to see if the building was truly haunted. Wanda Kay hosted the tour of Bobby Mackey’s for two hours as the group used pro-fessional ghost hunting equipment and investi-gated the area. Wanda Kay advised the group not to mention the names of the men on the show “Ghost Adventures” for fear that it would anger

spirits. Riley Kinsella reported having his hand grabbed near the front stage of the main room, and Michael Brunot also reports being touched by something that was not able to be seen. Ac-tual footage of the investigation was captured, and on the footage it is clearly seen that a ball in the left hand of Brian Menke was moved into his right hand by something not visible to the naked eye. Other evidence was found suggesting that

the area is haunted. A number of photos were taken where mysterious orbs are found hover-ing in the pictures, and in one photo a shadow figure can be clearly seen. The investiga-tion proved to be suc-cessful. Nearly every participant of the inves-tigation reports of wit-nessing something that cannot be explained.

The group that investigated Bobby

Mackey’s Music World was not disappointed in their findings. The entire investigation was filmed on High-Definition cameras, and several photos were taken that have images of some-thing that cannot be explained. The group highly recommends taking a ghost hunting tour if it in-terests you. If you wish to view the content of the investigation, contact any of the students mentioned above to see the footage captured at Bobby Mackey’s Music World. Caution, the video is not suitable for those easily-scared.

By: Tommy Lawler

The juniors at Covington Catholic High School attended a play put on by Playhouse in the Park on October third known as Fly. The students experienced some bus troubles on the way there, but these were quickly fixed and the field trip was able to continue.

The play was about Tuskegee Airmen, an African-American branch of pilots in the military. The play was fictional; none of the characters in the play were real. The main con-flict in the play is the racism experienced by the pilots; many people did not believe that they could be successful pilots in the military simply because of their skin color. Although they were discriminated against, the Tuskegee Airmen protected bomber ships in the play. Various teachers praised the acting in the play.

Due to the amount of action in the play, some very good special effects were needed. During the scenes when the actors pretended they were flying, special effects were displayed in the background of the set to make the action seem more realistic. The actors also had to spend a lot of time preparing for the play; they learned what it was like to fly in an airplane by going in a flight simulator, which realistically portrays the experience of piloting an airplane. There was also another unique aspect of the play: a tap dancer representing a griot came out on stage at various times throughout the play.

The juniors really enjoyed going to see the play, and they look forward to seeing more Playhouse in the Park plays.

Juniors Experience FLY

Page 7In the Community/ Clubs

By: Thomas Hiltz

For the past two years, the Kenton Coun-ty Public Library has been undergoing major renovations and expansions, and for those who have not seen the library during this period, you probably will not even recognize it anymore!

The library has seen many improvements and practical additions while under renovation. Some of the additions to note are the new drive-thru window, where people can drop off books to return them as well as put books that you want to check out on hold. Another is the outdoor gar-dens, built for the purpose of creating and fun and friendly environment for children to enjoy story time. There are also “quiet rooms” for students to study or just anyone who wants to enjoy tra-ditional library silence, as well as large meeting rooms for groups . The library’s infamous gene-

Covington Library Renovation Celebrationalogy department has also been improved now to

display an even larger collection of local history.

On Saturday, October 26 the library cel-ebrated the official re-opening of the refurbished library offering an open invitation for anyone who wanted to see the new Kenton County Pub-lic Library. The events on Saturday included the

ribbon cutting ceremony, library tours, Geneal-ogy computer workshops, unveiling of the new children’s department, Jazz music featuring the Tim Watson Trio, YA Manga Art display, cele-bration of favorite book character day, and a hip hop dance performed by Elementz Studio Kre8v to bring the celebration to a close. Covington Catholic’s own David Rice was there, represent-ing the National English Honors Society, dressed up as “Booker” the mascot. Adam Ruwee, an-other NEHS member, helped him around as they greeted and took pictures with library visitors.

It is safe to say the renovation and celebra-tion were a complete success, as the library now has more patrons than ever, and the re-opening was an immense help in advertising the new fea-tures of the library in order to attract more readers.

By: Brian Menke

The Quill and Scroll Induction cer-emony took place on October 21st. The hon-orary organization dates back to 1926 with a group of high school advisors and has since spread to every state and more than 45 countries.

The night began with a Mass held in the Chapel. The ceremonial procedure included a lighting of candles to signify the inductees initia-tion into the club. The main candle, the “light of

Passing the Torch

By: David Wessels

On October 24th, the members of the Na-tional English Honors Society (NEHS) coordinat-ed a night of food, fun, and mystery for the CCH staff members. The main activity was a murder mystery investigation that included many NEHS student members tastefully outfitted in the garb of some of the most famous literary characters of all time. Characters included Jay Gatsby, Dr. Jec-kyl, Mr. Hyde, Tom Sawyer, and Huck Finn. Staff was dressed in street clothing apart from Mrs. Shepard, who donned a Lady Macbeth outfit.

Teacher Appreciation NightHost Jeremy Greer (Witch King) kicked

off the evening by explaining the crime scene, which included a murder victim, murder scene, and several clues. Greer then clarified the rules of the occasion. Staff members were to go from room to room on the first floor searching for clues and decode them in order to uncover the murderer of the victim, Julius Caesar. Clues in the form of riddles were scattered throughout the first floor, including the cafeteria, multi-purpose room, and several classrooms. Clues led inves-tigators to other clues, which according to staff members were very confusing. Eventually, staff members were left to each guess as to which

of the literary characters was the culprit of the crime. Unfortunately, none of the staff mem-bers were able to solve the crime. Following the failed attempts at predicting the murderer, it was revealed that the culprit was James Bond.

Afterwards, the staff was served a de-lectable dinner brought in by several mem-bers of NEHS. According to several teach-ers who attended the event, it was a great success. In all, 17 teachers and staff mem-bers attended and a wonderfully mysteri-ous night was had by both staff and students.

By: Aaron Schilling

The Children’s Theatre of Cincin-nati has been a prominent program for the en-tertainment of audience members of all ages as well as an excellent opportunity for stu-dents from ages nine to seniors in high school to act alongside experienced actors and learn the fundamentals of the performing arts for many years. For the past four years, Covington Catholic High School has been represented in the Children’s Theatre by senior Neal Stansel.

Neal Stansel has been involved in theatre since fourth grade; during this time he has ex-perienced many different theatre programs, but the one that is held accountable for the majority of his experience and training is the Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati. Neal’s affiliation with the Children’s Theatre dates back to the sum-mer prior to his seventh grade year in which he participated in the Children’s Theatre’s summer program for students: star camp. In this program, instructors help students develop their talents in the performing arts, including singing, danc-

Senior Neal Stansel Takes the Stage

Truth” was used to light 8 other candles represent-ing important aspects of journalism such as learn-ing, leadership, and initiative. Each of the induct-ees also lit their candles from the “light of Truth” signifying their induction into the organization. The inductees include: Thomas Hiltz, Bradley Couch, Neal Stansel, Aaron Schilling, Riley Kin-sella, Andrew Whitacre, Keith Radcliff, Tommy Lawler, Johnny Thiel, and Nicholas Cheesman.

After the ceremony the inductees en-joyed refreshments to celebrate their in-

duction into the honorary organization.

ing, and acting. Following his participation in this program, Neal auditioned for the Children’s Theatre season his seventh grade year and was cast in his first show with the Children’s Theatre, Beauty and the Beast Jr. Since this show, Neal has performed in five seasons with the Chil-dren’s Theatre including a total of six shows. He states that his favorite shows to perform in have been Santa’s Toy Factory and Cinderella Kids, both of which took place in the previous 2012-2013 season. Most recently, Neal performed in the Children’s Theatre’s opening performance of their 2013-2014 season: Annie Jr. The rehearsal process for a Children’s Theatre show such as this requires actors to be present at each three hour rehearsal they are needed for, which take place six days a week for a month prior to the show’s performance week. Therefore, an actor participating in a show who also attends a rig-orous school such as Covington Catholic must be ready to endure many long nights consist-ing of exhausting rehearsals as well as hours of grueling homework. In addition to this stress piled on in the weeks prior to the show, actors such as Neal also miss a week of school to per-

form in the shows that grade schools take field trips to; therefore, Neal must also make up this week in tests, homework, and whatever else he missed for the performance. However, this seemingly crippling stress is well worth the fi-nal reward of the arduous rehearsal process; as Neal puts it, “I would not trade the feeling that I get when I take the stage for anything in the world. The product that these rehearsals turn out is well worth the stress that comes with them.” Neal’s reward for his participation in Annie Jr. is a little sweeter than usual, as he got to watch his ten year old sister, Ava, take the Children’s Theatre stage for her first time as Annie when she was cast as the title character’s understudy. “Seeing her perform as Annie in her very first show with Children’s Theatre was so surreal. I couldn’t believe her talent no matter how often I saw her perform. I couldn’t be prouder of her.”

Neal’s dedication to the Children’s Theatre is not only a testament to his tal-ent and how hard work and effort will always pay off in the end, it is also an example of just how rewarding it is to pursue one’s passion.

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On Monday, October 28, Covington Cath-olic High School was witness to the growth of its academic program when twenty-eight students were inducted into its National Honor Society.

The National Honor Society (NHS) is a program that recognizes the academic prowess and outstanding leadership of high school stu-dents as well as provides them with an outlet to utilize and showcase their talents while allow-ing them to stand out when applying to colleges. Every year, juniors and seniors who meet the requirements for the society receive the oppor-tunity to apply and become inducted into the club. All students who have obtained a GPA of 3.5 or above gain the chance to apply; however, not all of these students are inducted into NHS. Students must also shine in the areas of leader-ship and service; only students who have gone above and beyond in their service to Covington Catholic and the greater community in addition

NHS Inductionto their outstanding leadership at the school or other areas of their lives receive the elite privi-lege of being accepted into the club. This year twenty-eight students (twenty-two juniors and six seniors) were inducted into NHS. The induc-tion itself took place in the Covington Catholic Chapel; the NHS Choir Ensemble—consist-ing of senior NHS members and members of the Cov Cath Chamber Choir Aaron Schilling, Tommy Lawler, and Evan Harmeling—set the stage for a prayer service that preceded the in-duction. Deacon Nicholas Schwartz led this prayer service which transitioned into the induc-tion ceremony performed primarily by modera-tor Mrs. Julie Stengle and NHS President Keith Radcliff. The other NHS officers—Vice Presi-dent Brett Bauereis, Secretary Nathan Wich-mann, and Treasurer Danny Schlachter—gave a short explanation of the purpose and ideals of the four pillars of the National Honor Society: character, leadership, scholarship, and service. During the induction, the twenty-two juniors and six seniors joined the twenty-four senior in-

ductees of last year as members of the National Honor Society. The prayer service and the in-duction concluded, and Principal Bob Rowe gave some closing remarks on the importance of NHS and the type of students who represent it.

Mr. Rowe’s remarks reflected the im-portance of a program such as NHS on a school such as Covington Catholic. The National Honor Society, now represented by fifty-two students of Cov Cath, is a testament to the pri-orities of the school and the values that it em-phasizes. NHS is a representation of the type of students that Covington Catholic is home to: students who exemplify outstanding academic success, leadership, service, and character. The society and its number of members is also an example of the focus Covington Catholic has, not just on athletics or superiority over neigh-boring schools, but on the forming of fully edu-cated, well rounded students who value knowl-edge and upright morals over everything else.

The new members of National Honor Society after being inducted.

By: Keith Radcliff

Behind the hype of our successful football team, of our basketball team that is full of rising stars, and of all other fall and winter sports, there is one team that, with little recognition, quietly practices and competes: the academic team.

For those who may not know exactly what academic team is, it is a competition activity where Freshman, Junior Varsity, and Var-sity teams compete against teams from other schools around the area; the matches consist of a series of eighty challenging, and often rarely heard of, questions (split up into two halves of forty questions each) and the victor is decided by which team answers the most questions correct.

At Covington Catholic, Mr. Balskus, Varsity and Junior Varsity coach, and Mr. Hart-man, Freshman coach, have been the coaches of this organization for numerous years. They have sacrificed immeasurable amounts of time

Academic All-Stars

in order to cater to the success of the academic team program: leading practices three mornings a week, attending weekly matches all across the Tri-State Area, and participating in the Dis-trict, Regional, and State Governor’s Cups.

After a disappointing end to last season (having a losing record and scoring zero points in the Regional Governor’s Cup Competition), the

Academic Colonels look to bounce back this year with a winning re-cord and a trip down to the State Governor’s Cup Competition. In pursuit of that goal, the Varsity colonels are led by Logan Boyle (sophomore), Mitchell MacKnight (sophomore), Mike Henn (senior), and Drew Henize (senior); Jeremy Greer (senior), Joe Berns (senior), Connor Field (senior), Sean Ne-mann (senior), and Keith Radcliff (senior) are also part of the Varsity academic team. Due to wavering commitments and fall and winter sport participation, the lineups for the Junior Varsity and Freshman teams often vary and consist of an indefinite amount of students.

Unfortunately, the team has gotten off to a slow start this year with a record of 0-5, los-ing to Highlands, Beechwood, Newport Central Catholic, Calvary Christian, and Notre Dame; however, there is still amble amount of time to better their record before the district competi-tion. They compete every Tuesday of the week, so come out and support the academic Colonels!

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By: Neal Stansel

The JV Soccer Colonels ended their sea-son with a notable run at the regional tournament.

The JV Team started off hot with an im-pressive game against the Conner Cougars, beat-ing them 3 to 0. Sophomore Ryan Massie scored 2 goals, and sophomore Andrew Epplen scored 1. The following day the Colonels took on the St.Henry Crusaders with Ryan Massie and Jacob Nurre scoring goals. With this win, the Colonels moved on to the semifinals playing the Bishop Brossart Mustangs. The game was stale and end-ed 0 to 0 at the end of the game, pushing the game into penalty kick overtime. The Colonels missed one penalty kick, which pushed Bishop Bros-sart into the finals of the regional tournament.

Although the Colonels season did not end the way they had wished, 3 of the JV Soccer Colo-nels made the All-Tournament-Team. Congratula-tions to Ryan Massie, Jacob Nurre, and Ben Darpel.

The JV Team ended their season with an impressive 12 wins, 4 losses and 1 tie. They scored a total of 23 goals and got scored on 11 times. Congrats Colonels on a very successful season!

JV SoccerBy: Brian Menke

The varsity Colonels have earned their stripes this season and established themselves as a top team in the state.

The team placed second in an overnight meet in Bowling Green Kentucky on September 28, and then won Diocese the following Tuesday on their home course in Devou Park. A week later the Colonels defeated talented teams Highlands and Cooper to become NKAC Conference Cham-pions. The next two weeks the team had consec-utive second place finishes at the Pulaski County Invitational and Lexington Catholic Invitational.

At the Regional Meet held at Sherman Elementary the Colonels faced their number one rival in Northern Kentucky: Highlands. The race was expected to be close between the two, and it certainly was as the two teams duked it out for the Regional Champion title. The top 10 runners were only Colonels and Bluebirds. CCH took 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th, and 8th to barely edge out Highlands by 1 point to advance to State as Regional Champions.

The J.V. team has also had much suc-cess this season. They dominated the compe-tition at the Diocesan Meet and also placed 2nd at the Gatorland Meet. At the J.V Cham-pionship the Colonels placed third in a com-petitive race. J.V standouts include Thom-as Ziegler, John Pieper, and Joe Niehaus.

Although the freshmen did not have enough runners to complete a team, they have had individual success. Joe Niehaus has consistently been a top ten runner for the Colonels and looks to have a bright future with the team the next few years. Jason Krebs also has shown signifi-cant talent in his freshman year. Freshmen Alex Mardis and Kyle Fryman have improved greatly over the course of this year and look to contin-ue dropping their times in the next few years.

Born to Run

Michael Wessels tries to get around the Elder opponent.

By: Adam Fischer

Cov Cath Intramural Bowling kicked off the season in September with large numbers.

Every Wednesday over 60 Colonels travel on Big Blue to Erlanger Superbowl for a couple hours of fun with friends and competitive bowl-ing matches against other teams in the league. Even though some people are not the best bowl-ers, people like to have a chance to partici-pate in something fun and in the end everyone wins. The league is dominated by two seniors, Alex Riedinger and David Hacker, who are also on Cov Cath’s Interscholastic Bowling Team coached by Maureen Osterhaus. They both aver-age a score of 190 each game and lead the league in pins knocked down. Hacker recently bowled the highest three-game series of the year with a score of 655. Not far behind them comes other members of the Interscholastic Bowling Team with Matt Ellison averaging a score of 180 and Paul Wagner averaging a 165. Many of the other bowling team members also participate in the In-tramural Bowling League to practice for the up-coming season which starts in November. Three underclassmen, Tyler Pelliter, Logan Boyle and Lewie Smith, are perfect fit to help carry the Colonels’ bowling team each averaging a score of 130 in intramurals. Intramural bowling at Cov Cath is one of the most loved activities by the students who cannot wait for the next bowling season to start. It is a good way to meet new friends and interact with new people; it is also very competitive no matter how good you are.

In the end, everyone rides home in high spirits looking forward to the next Wednesday to come and another afternoon of intramural bowling.

Strikes and Spares, Who Cares?

Bradley Couch is going to let Grant Gunether pass him up.

By: Nick Kathman

The JV football squad was on quite the roll throughout the season. They went unde-feated, with a 46-6 win over Boone County, a 32-12 victory over Dixie, a 22- 15 victory over Beechwood, and a 20-14 win over Ryle.

The Ryle game was a special one because the Colonels had numerous players step up and play different positions. One player in particu-lar that stepped up and did a wonderful job was #4, Ryan McGinness. McGinness plays receiver, but due to the shortage at the quarter back po-sition, Ryan stepped up and played quarterback during the Ryle game and did a fantastic job. He ran for 1 touchdown and passed for 2 more. The Colonels also had multiple freshmen step up and play JV too, and they all did a great job as well. The JV football team had a game versus Moeller and a game versus Highlands cancelled for un-known reasons, so the season was cut short.

Though the JV season was cut short, the team saw a lot of success and shows a great future for the Covington Catholic foot-ball program. Great job, JV football squad and congratulations on a successful season!

JV Football

Max Boyle, CJ Moellering, Danny Schlachter, and Noah Wilm-ink reveal their real skills at Intramural Bowling.

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The day finally arrived when the Cross Country Colonels were put to the test against the best teams in the state in Lexington at the Kentucky Horse Park. After beating the rivals from Fort Thomas at Regionals, the runners felt that they were within grasp of the state title.

Going into the race, one thing re-mained unclear: how would the reigning state champion North Oldham team race? The Colonels beat the team a few times through-out the season, but each time the team from Oldham County was impaired by injury.

At the state meet, however, the North Oldham team came healthy and hungry for an-other state title. They showed that they are still the champion team of the state and took the title for the 4th year in a row. What North Old-ham did not expect was that a team from North-ern Kentucky would give them a “run” for their money, and it was not the Highlands Bluebirds.

Colonels Take State Runner-Up

Matt Rose and Bradley Couch staying together at the State Championship.

Varsity FootballBy: Tyler O’Connell

The Varsity Football Colonels started the month of October with a record of 3-2 and a long road ahead of them. The Colonels were set to play the Beechwood Tigers on Thursday straight off a tough loss at home to Highlands the previous Saturday. The CovCath vs. Beech-wood matchup was the Fox Sports Game of the Week, and the Colonels did not disappoint on live television. After a slow first quarter the colonels struck first with a Sam Dressman touchdown run early in the second quarter to go up 6-0. The colonels’ defense con-tinued to hold Beechwood’s of-fense to little or nothing in the first half, and the colonels scored two more touchdowns compli-ments of a 4-yard pass from Ben Dressman to Samuel Hatter and a one-yard run by Ben Dress-man to go up 18-0 at the half. The Colonels extended their lead in the third quarter with a touch-down pass from Ben Dressman to his brother Sam to go up 25-0. Marshal Hornsby also got in the the scoring action with a 22-yard field goal to extend the Colonels lead to 28-0. Beechwood finally got on the board late in the fourth quarter with a 20-yard touchdown pass and Colo-nels won 28-7. Matthew Way’s one handed inter-ception was the highlight of the game on defense and the Colonels improved their record to 4-2.

The Colonels’ next opponent was the Ryle Raiders who they were set to play on Satur-day afternoon of October 12th. The game did not start well for the Colonels as the Raiders jumped out to a 7-0 lead with a 72-yard touchdown pass. The Colonels’ offense could not get anything going in the first half and the Raiders extended their lead to 10-0 with a 37 yard field goal. The second half didn’t start any better than the first as Ryle quickly extended their lead to 17-0 with a 46-yard interception returned for a touchdown. The fourth quarter began with the score at 17-0

and the Colonels had their backs against the wall and knew they had to make something hap-pen. On fourth and long from the 25-yard line Ben Dressman threw a touchdown pass to Lo-gan McDowell who made an outstanding grab in the end zone to make it 17-7. A few minutes later the Colonels struck again with a 17-yard touchdown pass to Samuel Hatter to make it 17-13. The Colonels got the ball back, and feeling the momentum starting to swing, finally took the lead when Sam Dressman had a 15-yard

touchdown run to make it 19-17. The Colonels iced the game with another touchdown with 25 seconds left to make the final score 26-17.

Following the Colonels exciting vic-tory over the Ryle Raiders, the team trav-elled down to Harrison County to face the Thoroughbreds. The Colonels had no trouble against Harrison, defeating them easily 42-6. Sam Dressman turned in a few touchdowns for the Colonels, and Alex Wagner had a forced fumble recovered by Mathew Miller.

The following week the Football Colo-nels were set to play Holmes at Wooten Field. The Colonels got out to a quick start in the first quarter with a Ben Dressman touchdown run

and a touchdown pass from Ben Dressman to Samuel Hatter to go up 14-0. The Colonels con-tinued to dominate in the second quarter, scor-ing three touchdowns compliments of two Ben Dressman touchdown runs and a Ben Dressman touchdown pass to Lee McClure to go up 32-0 at the half. Holmes finally got on the board in the third quarter , scoring 13 unanswered points thanks to a Ben Dressman pass being intercept-ed and taken back for a touchdown by Jonathan Scruggs and an 11-yard touchdown run by Jona-

than Scruggs. Mathew Way finally got the scoring started for the Col-onels again with an 85 yard kickoff return for a touchdown. Each team would score one more touchdown to make the final score 55-20.

Following their victory against Holmes, the Colonels were set for a big matchup with Connor on Se-nior Day. The Colonels did not dis-appoint in their last regular season game, getting off to a quick start with a 20 yard reverse pass from Sam Dressman to Lee McClure to go up 7-0. The Colonels scored again to go up 14-0 with a Ben Dressman pass to Lee McClure. The Colonels’ defense continued to hold Connor and Luke Bir joined in on the scoring with a 4-yard touch-

down run to go up 20-0. Connor scored their only touchdown of the day in the second quarter with a 4-yard touchdown run from Andrew Way. But it was all CovCath after that, the Colonels scored 20 unanswered points thanks to Ben Dressman touchdown passes to Evan Braun and Logan McDowell, and a Ben Darlington touchdown run to go up 40-6. The Colonels held 4 star quar-terback recruit Drew Barker to 56 yards passing.

After finishing the regular season with 5 straight wins, the Colonels are set to start trucking through the playoffs with a first round matchup with (3-7) Rowan County, and fore-seeable matchups with Johnson Central in the second round, and Highlands in the third.

The Colonels put together their best team race of the season on the State course. At the end of the struggle, the Colonels finished runner-up

to North Oldham by only 16 points. In third place were the Highlands Bluebirds, who followed the Colonels by a large margin of 45 points.

Individually, the Colonels had much suc-cess. Brian Menke finished 6th overall followed by teammate Sean Panoushek in 9th. Following Sean and Brian was a close pack of runners in-cluding Bradley Couch in 19th, Matt Rose in 20th, and Grant Guenther in 34th. Menke, Pan-oushek, Rose, and Couch all were named to the All-State team. Brian Menke also received the Uncommon Excellence Award from the KHSAA for Senior Leadership and Sportsmanship. Men-ke and Panoushek were named to 1st Team All-Region; Couch and Rose were named to 2nd Team, with Guenther receiving an Honorable Mention.

The Varsity team is losing 6 Seniors this year, which will be a major loss to the team next season. However, Junior Grant Guenther and Sophomore Matt Rose look to be a key foundation for rebuilding next year. Regard-less, the 2013 season will certainly be a year to remember as the Colonels made themselves into one of the best teams in school history.

The Varsity Football team’s offense trying to get past Highland’s defense.

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By: Jake Kleier

The defending district champi-ons are trying to top last season’s results.

The Varsity Soccer Colonels started the District Tournament October 14 hoping to repeat as champions. The team received the number one seed with a record of 8-6-3, with big wins against Ryle, Newport Central Catho-lic, Highlands, Scott and Cooper. The Colonels will begin tournament play against Coving-ton Latin at Home with a three- game winning streak. The Colonels beat Cov Latin 10-0, and went on to beat Holy Cross 5-1 for the Title of District Champion for the 17th year in a row.

As District Champs, the Soccer team ad-vanced to the Regional Tournament with a first game vs. St. Henry. The Colonels shutout the Crusaders by a score of 3-0. They next played in the semi-finals against NewCath at Ryle. The Soccer Colonels suffered a disappointing loss in 1-0 thriller, which ended with penalty kicks at the end of regulation. Although the season’s end may be disappointing, the team still had some star players including: Adam Atkinson, Corey Craig, Daniel Chal, Bryce Day, and Robert Lilly.

The soccer team fought hard but the expectations remain high for next year’s team.

Repeat District Champs

By: Merik Berling

The Varsity Golf Team finished 3rd place at this year’s Kentucky State Golf Tournament. It has been the best finish for the Golf Colonels since 2004 when that team took 2nd place. “I am very proud to be the coach of such a great team,” said Varsity Golf Coach Robb Schneman. The team consisted of seniors Merik Berling, Brett Bau-ereis, and Timmy Fritz. The team also consisted of junior Paul Huber and freshman Griffin Flesch who is the son of PGA professional Steve Flesch.

West Jessamine finished in 1st place at +14 and St. Xavier (Louisville) placed 2nd with a score of +21. Covington Catholic shot +39 to take 3rd and Ryle shot +53. Fred Allen Meyer from West Jessamine took individual medal-ist of the tournament shooting an impressive -8 for the tournament. The Colonels were fu-elled by Ferguson Spring Water as they placed very well in the year’s State Tournament.

Paul Huber led the Golf Colonels fir-ing a +4 for the tournament finishing in 9th place individually. Brett Bauereis finished 2nd for the team finishing in 11th place individu-ally. Timmy Fritz finished at +13 and Merik Berling finished at +19. Griffin Flesch round-ed out the Golf Colonels with a score of +23.

Coach Robb Schneman had finally finished this year’s trophy wall with a great 3rd place state trophy. The Golf Colonels did the traditional bite on the trophy and senior golfer Merik Berling almost needed some dental work after his great bite on the tro-phy. All in all this season has created great memories and will be a season to remember.

Varsity GolfersBy: Brian Radcliff

Covington Catholic high school added bowling to its list of interscholastic sports in 2011. The team has slowly progressed over the past two years. In order to make the team bowlers must play six games over a two day period and place among the top averages for all six games combined.

The 2013-2014 team will be the largest team in all three years, with 17 members. The new head coach, Mrs. Dugan, decided not to make many cuts in order to prep younger players for the coming years. With more than 10 seniors on this year’s team, Mrs. Dugan did not want to have inexperienced upper classmen in the fol-lowing years. Five seniors will return from last year’s Regional Championship Team, including David Hacker, Alex Reidinger, Brett Bauereis, Danny Schlachter, and Paul Wagner. The other members of this year’s team are Garret Atchison, Andrew Branch, Matt Ellison, Jason Keininger, C.J> Moellering, Andrew Whitacre, Tyler Kathman, Logan Boyle, Tyler Pelliter, Lewie Smith, Nathan Wagner, and Adam Zimmerman, who is the only freshman on this year’s team.

This year’s team is anticipated to have a very good season with its five returning seniors, and the many new editions. In the 2012-2013 season the bowling team brought home Coach Jack Kaelin’s first regional championship. They hope to do the same for new head coach, Mrs. Dugan, and take home another regional cham-pionship. David Hacker looks to do well in the individual state tournament where he placed 11th last year. The team also hopes to make a run at the annual state tournament where they placed 9th last season. Good luck Colonels!!!

Bowling Tryouts

By: Garrett D. Atchison

At the beginning of this school year, the intramural golf league held its first couple of matches at World of Golf. Between 9 – 12 students participated (mainly sophomores and a couple of freshmen). A couple birdies were made, although Mr. Lubbers 3 putted 5 times on 9 holes. Overall, Connor Duell and Brennan Kamer were two of the most consistent with their tee shots and putting. Unfortunately, Seth Winters had some trouble with loosing golf balls, but he eventually got better. On average the matches lasted about 2 and a half hours per group since they were walking the course.

There were some exciting events and close calls on the golf course. On the first day of golf, on the first hole, Zimmerman hit the ball 5 feet from the hole. And on the second day, on the third hole, Adam Wessles hit the ball three feet from the hole. But unfortunately, the Intramural golf league is still searching for that first hole in one.

Intramural Golf

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Covington Catholic Times StaffAdvisor: Mrs. Diane Ruth

Newspaper Editors: Riley Kinsella and Jake Kleier

Staff:Garrett Atchison, Merik Berling, Evan Braun, Michael Brunot,Nick Cheesman, Bradley Couch, Corey Craig, Sam Dressman,

Adam Fischer, Sam Hatter, Thomas Hiltz, Nick Kathman, Riley Kinsella, Jake Kleier, Tommy Lawler, Brian Menke,

Jason Meyer, Austin Oberhausen, Tyler, O’Connell, Matt Quinn, Brian Radcliff, Keith Radcliff, Aaron Schilling, Neal Stansel,

Jonny Thiel, David Wessels, Andrew Whitacre

Photographers: Matt Quinn, Michael Brunot, Jason Meyer, Garrett Atchison, Riley Kinsella

Freshman Footballers Prove Their DominanceBy: Andrew Whitacre

The freshman footballers played three games this, all of which they came out vic-torious. The freshman football team played Conner, Boone County and Dixie. Each game was an outstanding performance for the team never scored less than 35 points.

On October 2, the freshman football team played the Conner Cougars and won 42-7. VonHandorf threw 3 touchdown passes and ran one in. The receivers of his touchdown passes were Best and Angel. In the second half, Hentz threw two touchdown passes to Tuem-ler and Crowe, respectively. Conner did not score until there was 3:35 left in the 4th quarter, in which they scored off of a fumble recovery.

On October 10th, the team visited Boone County and brought home a 35-14 victory. In the first half, VonHandorf ran in 2 touchdowns and threw one to Angel. Boone County also scored in the first half on a touchdown pass.

In the second half, Vonhandorf threw a touch-down and also ran one in. Boone County scored on an 85 yard touchdown pass, but it was not enough to catch up to the Colonels. Vonhan-dorf finished the game with 5 touchdowns.

Last, the Freshman Colonels played Di-xie at Dixie on October 24th. The Colonels re-turned home with a 56-36 victory over the Lit-

tle Colonels at Dixie. During the first half, Vonhandorf had 3 touchdowns to Angel and Schrand and 58-yard rush-ing touchdown. Best had a 26-yard touchdown run along with Crowe who had an 18 yard touchdown run. Dixie scored twice in the first half off of a touchdown pass and a run. Vonhandorf tacked on another touchdown with a 60-yard pass to Angel, followed by France who threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Durrett in the 4th quarter. Dixie scored on a 63-yard run, a 1- yard run and a blocked punt return in the 2nd half.

The freshman footballers had a triumphant month this October as they proved their dominance in the North-ern Kentucky Freshman Football League.

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